Collaborate Disseminate
In the 1980s there were an incredible number of personal computers of all shapes, sizes, and operating system types, and there was very little interoperability. Unlike today’s Windows-Mac duopoly, this …read more Continue reading FPGA Dev Kit Unofficially Brings MSX Standard Back
Before DOOM would run on any computing system ever produced, and indeed before it even ran on its first computer, the game that would run on any computer of the …read more Continue reading Zork Running on 4-Bit Intel Computer
For various reasons, crypto mining has fallen to the wayside in recent years. Partially because it was never useful other than as a speculative investment and partially because other speculative …read more Continue reading A Steam Machine Clone For An Indeterminate but Possibly Low Cost
Thanks to the Raspberry Pi, we have easy access to extremely inexpensive machines running Linux that have all kinds of GPIO as well as various networking protocols. And as the …read more Continue reading Low-Cost, Portable Streaming Server
The invention of sprites triggered a major shift in video game design, enabling games with independent moving objects and richer graphics despite the limitations of early video gaming hardware. As …read more Continue reading The Many-Sprites Interpretation of Amiga Mechanics
By far, the most widely used psychoactive substance in the world is caffeine. It’s farmed around the world in virtually every place that it has cropped up, most commonly on …read more Continue reading Measuring Caffeine Content At Home
Although Nissan has been in the doldrums ever since getting purchased by Renault in the early 2000s, it once had a reputation as a car company that was always on …read more Continue reading Modernizing a Classic Datsun Engine
Sorting algorithms are a common exercise for new programmers, and for good reason: they introduce many programming fundamentals at once, including loops and conditionals, arrays and lists, comparisons, algorithmic complexity, …read more Continue reading Different Algorithms Sort Christmas Lights
In almost every measurable way, a lossless digital audio file is superior to any analog media. This doesn’t mean that analog audio isn’t valuable though; plenty of people appreciate the …read more Continue reading Streaming Music to Cassette
The reason photographic darkrooms are needed is because almost any amount of light can ruin the film or the photographic paper before they are fixed. Until then these things are …read more Continue reading Photographing Cosmic Rays with a Consumer Camera